Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have ...

The earliest days of Earth held secrets that scientists are still trying to uncover. One of the greatest mysteries is how ...

The University College London research builds on years of efforts to trace the origins of Earth’s early genetic materials.

One of humanity’s most profound questions is whether life exists beyond Earth — and if so, what forms it might take. For ...

Their findings, appearing in Nature Chemistry, suggest that environmental factors played a key role in shaping the molecular complexity needed for life to emerge. To simulate early Earth ...

This prebiotic Earth, however, was filled with a wide array of abiotic organic molecules derived from its early environment ... can uptake salts can provide insights into the relevant functions ...

Using computational modeling, a team of scientists explored how working backwards from modern biochemistry could help map out how simple, non-living chemicals present on early Earth gave rise to ...

Such networks, which would have been common on the early Earth, could have provided a kind ... Can we shape or stop evolution? New insights into nature are providing surprising answers, and ...

Montana Tech researchers have a new scientific article out, detailing how samples taken from hot springs at Yellowstone National Park may offer insight into how life evolved on Earth. Researchers ...

Scientists have laid out the history of a near-Earth asteroid in unprecedented detail ... and rocks at the start of the solar system. Their chemistry is also thought to be similar to that of the early ...

A prevailing theory in the scientific community, known as the "RNA World" hypothesis, suggests that life may have originally ...

A new study explores how complex chemical mixtures change under shifting environmental conditions, shedding light on the prebiotic processes that may have led to life on Earth. In the Painted Desert ...